Read the sentence. The faculty was able to teach computer science classes now that the school built a new lab. Which words could replace the subordinating conjunction in the sentence while maintaining its original structure? Choose two correct answers.

“Now that” introduces a dependent clause explaining the reason the faculty could teach computer science: the school had built a new lab. “Because” and “since” can introduce that same kind of reason clause, so both preserve the sentence’s structure and meaning. “But,” “and,” and “so” do not work here as subordinating conjunctions in the same way.

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